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Essays, evaluations, and observations on the drift of modern institutions.
The Mercy of Restoring Purpose: Happiness
Happiness often returns when a person regains purpose, useful action, and a meaningful place in the lives of others. True...
Read Article The World Needs Mercy Now
by Richard P. Weigand Why mercy is not weakness, but the restraint that keeps civilization humane The world does not...
Read Article The Noble Eightfold Path as an Ethics System: What the West Could Learn from Buddhist Formation
The Noble Eightfold Path may be understood as Buddhism’s central ethics system: a structured path for forming the individual through...
Read Article Humanism as Corrective, Humanism as Distortion
Humanism may have been correct as a partial recovery and destructive as a total frame.
Read Article The Moral Code We Had and the One We Have Now
by Richard P. Weigand Every group has to have a moral code. Not necessarily written down. Not always formal. But...
Read Article The Individual, Ethics, and the Social Order: Basics of Society
When ethics fails, justice rises out of necessity.
Read Article Why People Often Reject the Truth
by Richard P. Weigand One of the stranger things about truth is that it can be plainly stated, clearly...
Read Article Truths for Teachers: Why Good Teachers Do Not Always Give the Answer First
by Richard P. Weigand There is a difference between helping someone learn and sparing him the work of...
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